Yellow gold and fair skin...

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#18
Just for a note of difference --

I'm a very pale olive (100% Italian, but some northern Italian blood paled me up) and I think silver tones look best on me. Rose gold also looks good (there's a reason it's so popular in Italy and India).

Regular 14k yellow gold doesn't look great, but I wear a fair amount of it anyway. In fact my wedding ring which I wear every day is 14k yellow.
 
#19
I have pale Irish skin. I wear 14K yellow gold and also have some silver jewelry. While I love my silver pieces I really think silver (esp silver with turquoise) stands out more against tanned skin.
 
#20
Candice0985 said:
Im very irish, black hair, blue eyes, freckles and very fair skin- pink undertones. I recently bought a YG tiffany twist bow necklace and I think it looks really nice on me. what doesnt suit me are 14k and under YG's they are too light in tone for fair skinned people IMO.
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That really "pops" on your skin! Looks great!

black jade said:
As stated above, the undertone is what matters, whether its warm or cool not the fairness or darkness of the skin. the easiest way to check--if your veins show through your skin as blue, you're cool-toned (winter or summer season), if they show as green, you're warm-toned (spring or autumn season).
Yellow gold, red gold and bronze are generally better for warm toned people and plat, silver and white gold for cool toned. But there are golds that look good on cool toned people. Generally lower carat--don't try 18k and above.
This is most important near your face--for a ring or bracelet or a necklacenot near your face, not as key.
A little tarnish makes silver warmer and then warm toned people can wear it. Not a lot so that the silver is black, but just a little so that it gets goldish. Rhodium dipped silver won't do this and generally won't suit those with warm toned skin.
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Thanks for the info on determining skin tone! This is a great way to find out!
 
#22
I am Chinese, very fair with pinkish and blue undertone, I can wear both yellow gold and silver but the rose gold looks kind of dirty on me. I am currently wearing a white and yellow gold mixed necklace and the yellow gold diamonds cross. I love the combination. May be you should try those.
 
#24
I'm a fair-skinned, redhead with green eyes (Irish, too!), and I've worn yellow gold all of my life--it suits me. (I do have a ton of silver, though, but yellow gold suits me far better). Does anyone remember the Color Me Beautiful books from the '80's and '90's? The author (Carole Jackson) thought that your skin tone, eye color, and hair color could be correlated to the seasons. For example, people with dark hair (brown or black), usually are Winters, who look best in jewel, bluish-toned colors. Springs, like myself, look best in warm-undertoned pastels and neutrals. Each season also looks best in either gold or silver metals; in fact, at the seminars, she would hold a piece of gold or silver lame fabric up the the person's face in order to help to determine their seasonal colors.

If you turn out to look better in white gold or silver, I still wouldn't let that stop me, if I were you! Just wear what you like! That's what matters, IMHO.
 
#25
doreenjoy said:
Just for a note of difference --

I'm a very pale olive (100% Italian, but some northern Italian blood paled me up) and I think silver tones look best on me. Rose gold also looks good (there's a reason it's so popular in Italy and India).

Regular 14k yellow gold doesn't look great, but I wear a fair amount of it anyway. In fact my wedding ring which I wear every day is 14k yellow.
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This is me exactly, except I prefer rose gold over silver. Yellow doesn't look great, but I can manage it & my wedding ring too is yellow gold (but 18k)
Platinum doesn't look that good on me though...
 
#28
Wow :) We have a lot of fair skinned ladies on here. I suppose I will just have to try it out. I'm wondering if my skin tone isn't changing as I get older and maybe that's why I'm starting to rethink yellow gold...
 
#29
YG is a classic. It left for a while and everyone jumped on the WG bandwagon. My family has always worn YG, so I grew up with that. I was buying tons of WG and a few years ago got back into YG.
I think it also depends on the style of the jewelry, what stone if there is one. Some stones look better with white metals, some with gold and some look great with pink or rose.
I am glad to see some fair ladies liking YG, it looks soo good!
 
#30
Nelmi said:
Wow :) We have a lot of fair skinned ladies on here. I suppose I will just have to try it out. I'm wondering if my skin tone isn't changing as I get older and maybe that's why I'm starting to rethink yellow gold...
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it's true that skin tones change over time. I used to be able to wear bright jewel tones, but now I have to look for paler colors.
 
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